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Patented Nov. 24,1896.'

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

STEPHEN O. TRESCOTT, OF PITTSBURG, KANSAS.

MUClLAGE-BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming' part of Letters Patent No. 572,079, dated November 24, 1896.

Application ned January 9,1896, serial No. 574,823. cto man.;

To @ZZ whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, STEPHEN O. TRESCOTT, of Pittsburg, in the county of Crawford and State of Kansas, have invented a new and Improved Mucilage-Bottle, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to certain improvements in bottles or receptacles for containing mucilage, and particularly to that class of such devices as are adapted to discharge the mucilage in such a manner as to dispense with the employment of a brush, and the 0bject is to provide a device of this character of a simple and inexpensive construction, which shall be adapted for use no matter in what position the bottle or receptacle is held, and which may be employed for applying mucilage with great nicety, either in the form of a narrow line or in the form of a broad band.

The invention consists in a mucilage bottle or receptacle comprising a body formed of rubber or analogous exible material and having a tip adapted to act as a substitute for a brush and formed with an outlet for the passage of themucilage from said body when the same is compressed.

The invention also contemplates certain novel features of construction, combination, and arrangement of the various parts of the improved device, whereby certain important advantages are attained and the bottle or receptacle is made simpler, cheaper, and otherwise better adapted and more convenient for use than various other similar devices heretofore employed, all as will be hereinafter fully set forth. The novel features of the invention will be carefully defined in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure l is a perspective view showing the improved m ucilage bot-tle or receptacle in position for use. Fig. 2 is an enlarged axial sectional view taken longitudinally through the bottle or receptacle; and Fig. 3 is a side view of the improved bottle or receptacle, the upper part thereof being broken away to show the interior of the bottle in section in a plane substantially at right angles to the plane of the section in Fig. 2.

Vto form a shoulder, as indicated at 3, and atthe central portion of the top of the bottle or holder is formed a circular outlet 4, extending in the axis of the device and communicating with the lower end of a mouth 5, made gradually increasing in width from its lower to its outer end, as clearly seen in Fig. 2, and graduallydecreasing in thickness from its lower to its outer end, as clearly seen in Fig. 3. In this way it will be seen that the mouth 5 of the outlet is formed in the shape of an elongated slit, and the walls 6 of the neck of the bottle or receptacle at opposite ends of said elongated slit are parallel to each other and y to the axis of the bottle or receptacle, as clearly indicated in Fig.` 2, while the side walls 7 of the neck of the bottle or those walls thereof along the sides of said elongated slit are inclined or tapered toward each other, as clearly seen in Fig. 3, so as to give the neck a somewhat V-shaped form in cross-section. By this construction the walls of the neck at the lower part thereof and adjacent tothe circular outlet-opening et of the bottle or receptacle are made of substantially uniform thickness, the lower portions 9 of the walls 6, as seen in Fig. 2, being of substantially equivalentthickness to the lower portions 8 of the walls '7. (Seen in Fig.

In using the device the body l of the bottle or receptacle will be grasped between the lingers and compressed, as indicated at l0 in Fig. 3, and the elongated outlet-slit 5 will be applied to the part to be gummed, so that the mucilage discharged from the hollow 2 of the body will pass from said outlet-slit onto the surface to be gummed. In this way the bottle or receptacle may be either held in an erect position, as indicated in Fig. l, and the mucilage applied to the'lower surface of an article indicated at :1c in dotted lines in said ligure, in which case the pressure of the iingers on the sides of the elastic body l will be IOO sufficient to force the mucilage therefrom, or;

the bottle or receptacle may be held in anvinverted position and the mucilage applied inV the ordinary way. lVhen the pressure of the iin gers is withdrawn from the sides of the elastic body, that portion of the mucilage contained in the outlet-passages 4 and 5 will be withdrawn therefrom into the hollow 2 of the body, so that said passages 4 and 5 will be prevented from becoming clogged with solidiiied mucilage, whereby the proper working of the device would be hindered, an d the lower portion of the walls of the neck (indicated at S and 9 in Figs. S and 2) being of substantially equal thickness it will be evident that an increased thickness of rubber is provided at this point to compensate for the increased wear thereon caused by the use of the neck as a brush.

The walls of the tip or neck gradually increase in thickness toward the body of the receptacle. The purpose of this construction is to prevent the tip from being bent so much as to close the outlet-passages 4 5 by bringing the walls thereof in contact with each other. (See dotted lines in Fig. 3.) Thus the interior of the receptacle will always remain in communication with the outer air, and when pressure is discontinued the mucilage will be withdrawn from the tip or neck in the bottle.

By means of the elongated outlet-slit 5 it will be evident that the mucilage may be applied either in the form of a narrow stripe or line by moving the neck along the surface to be gummed in a direction parallel with the length of said slit, or the mucilage may be applied to said surface in the form of a broad band by moving the neck across the surface in a direction at right angles to the length of said slit.

From the above description of my improved m ucilage bottle or receptacle it will be obvious that the device is of an .extremely simple and inexpensive construction and is well adapted for the purposes for which it is designed, and it will also be obvious that the device is susceptible of considerable modification without material departure from the principles and spirit of the invention, and for this reason l do not wish to be understood as limiting myself to the exact form and arrangement of the various parts herein set forth.

Havin g thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. A mucilage bot-tle or receptacle, comprising a compressible elastic hollow body, and a tip provided with a bore communicating with the interior of the body and adapted to serve as an outlet for the mucilage when the receptacle is compressed, substantially as described.

2. A mucilage bottle or receptacle, comprising a hollow body and a flexible tip securedl to said body and made with walls decreasing in thickness gradually toward its free end, forming an end portion adapted to serve as a brush, said tip having a channel or outlet communicating with the interior of the body, substantially as described.

A mucilage bottle or receptacle, comprising a hollow body and a flexible tip secured thereto and made with an outlet communicating with the interior of the body, said outlet being approximately cylindrical at its inner end and terminating at its outer end in an elongated discharge-slot, and the walls of the tip increasing in thickness gradually from the discharge end thereof, so as to afford iiexibility for the said outlet yet preventing such flection thereof as will bring the walls of the outlet into contact with each other, substantially as described.

et. A mucilage bottle or receptacle, comprising a compressible elastic hollow body and a tip made with an outlet communicating with the interior of the body and made approximately cylindrical at its inner end, said outlet gradually increasing in length while decreasing in width to form a discharge-slit, substantially as described.

5. A mucilage bottle or receptacle, comprising a compressible elastic hollow body, and a tip made with walls decreasing in thickness graduallytoward its free end, forming an end portion adapted to serve as a brush, said tip having a permanently-open outlet communicating with the interior of the body and made approximately cylindrical at its inner end, the outlet gradually increasing in width to form an elongated discharge-slit, substantially as described.

G. A mucilage bottle or receptacle, comprising a compressible elastic hollow body, a tip made with a permanently-open outlet communicating with the interior of the body, the walls of the said outlet increasing in thickness gradually from the discharge end thereof toward the body so as to afford flexibility for the said outlet, while preventing such flection thereof as will bring the walls of the outlet into contact with each other, substantially as described.

7. A mucilage bottle or receptacle, comprising a compressible elastic hollow body, and a tip made with walls increasing in thickness gradually from its end toward the body, said tip having a permanently-open outlet communicating with the interior of the body and made approximately cylindrical at its inner end, the outlet gradually increasing in width to form an elongated discharge-slit, substantially as described.

STEPHEN O. TRESCOTT. lVitnesses:

T. J. CRowELL, WM. H. VOETH.

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